Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-05-07
A Vain Attempt.


A Vain Attempt.
The San Francisco Alta OF recent
date says:
The Eastern press is beginning to
rally against the movement OF popu'
lation toward California, and teens
with advice to home-seekers to avoid
this State. Their text is the sale OF
lands in Southern California at prices
which have no relation to their pro-
ductive capacity.
We have long foreseen and con-
stantly prepared for this result.
Southern California climate is the
successful rival of that OF Southern
Europe, not because it so excels the
climate of the rest of the State, but
because it is the better advertised and
was earlier put upon the market as
m attraction. An eminent member
of the Judiciary of an Eastern State.
during a recent call on the 1tta.
told us that he had. during several
Winters, sought a clement climate in
Southern Europe with his family,
but this Winters experience in
Southern California had proved its
immeasurabe superiority to anything
Europe can offer. In his enthusiasm
he declared that our Southern coun-
ties are sure to attract all that vast
Winter travel which has heretofore
resorted to Europe and to Florida,
aud finally to draw thousands every
year from England and the Continent.
He is right. That part OF California
will never see a material recession OF
its present high tide OF prosperity.
But the Eastern press must not do
its elientage the injustice OF decrying
therefore, the rest OF the State as a
desirable location for home-seekers,
who come here for winteriess cii-
mate and cheap lands on which to
gain living, because for these pur-
poses Central and Northern Califor.
mia are the most excellent OF all
places.
No effort of the press East or West
can have any appreciable effect in
staying the current of immigration to
Southern California. The intelligent
editor of the San Francisco paper
truly sets forth the correct status OF
this matter. There is not in all Eu-
TO pc any region endowed with cli-
mate half so pleasant or salubrious
as that OF South California. As to
Florida. our only rival on this conti-
nent, there is no comparison to be in
stituted between her climate and that
of the country around Los Angeles
Here is weather perfect in all partlc.
ulars the year round. The summers
are as delightful as the winters are
dry and mild. Here the invalid can
soiourn and gain stripgth each day
in the twelve months. Florida is not
endurable until late in the autumn,
and drives forth the valetudinarian
and the robust together early in the
spring. Even during the few months
OF com parative comfort in mid-winter,
the Florida climate is subject to vio-
lent and frequent changes. Heat and
cold, heavy rains and driving sleet
play hide and seek at all times OF tie
season.
The .ita falls into a grevious but
popular error in the last sentence
quoted above. Southern California
is just as attractive to the "home-
seekers" as it is to the invalid. The
alfa should know that the vote in the
recent State election proved thai
the increase in population made
in the State during the previous
two years was almost all in the
Southern end. All the Southern
counties grew apace in actual settlers.
This growth is going OH to-day more
than ever. No county in the
State is SO rich in agricultural re-
sources as is Los Angeles county.
Nor is it the citrus fruit only for
which this region is noted. English
walnuts, pecans, figs, olives, the
entire deciduous fruit family, includ-
ing apricots and nectarines, grow
here to absolute perfection. The
small fruits do as we'll. and many are
the families that grow rich here in
the cultivation of berries for the mar
kets Of this city. Colusa does not
produce better wheat than ours, nor
does Alameda turn out as good corn.
Potatoes. cabbages, tomatoes and all
the prosaic and plebeian family of
vegetables grow here and mature all
the year round. We have new
potatoes, green peas, string beans
md tomatoes fresh from the vines at
New Years tide, as for our dinner on
the Fourth OF July. "For these pur-
noses Central and N, rthern Califor-
uin are not the most excellent Of all
nlnces.v All must yield the palm to
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